A Christmas Carol 1 - some of the characters

A Christmas carol engraving in black & white

Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim

Scrouge and Marley b&w engraving

Scrooge and Marley's ghost

Read/listen to a summary of the story

(Read the story and then match the characters to their descriptions here.

When you have done this exercise, listen again and correct the summary)

When you have read or listened to the story, try and identify the characters below, even some whose names you have not heard?

Select a question from the list below...
Mrs. Cratchit	Jacob Marley	Tiny Tim	The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
Fezziwig	Martha and Belinda Cratchit	Charles Dickens	Belle
The Ghost of Christmas Past	Fred	Fan	Ebenezer Scrooge
Peter Cratchit	The Ghost of Christmas Present	Bob Cratchit	Ignorance and Want

and click on an answer button
Bob’s youngest son	Scrooge's nephew	the main character in 'A Christmas Carol'.	Scrooge’s sister who died when he was young.
a ghost who accompanies Scrooge on a journey back into his past	Scrooge’s poorly-paid clerk, and the father of several children	Bob's eldest son	a merchant to whom Scrooge was apprenticed as a youth.
a ghost who shows Scrooge how Christmas is experienced by many in the society of the day.	Bob Cratchit's wife	a ghost who spells out what the future will hold if Scrooge continues living the way he does, with the priorities and values he has at present.	the author of many novels who exposed many of the social evils he saw in Victorian times.
a young woman to whom Scrooge was once engaged.	the names of two children who are victims of poverty and neglect.	two of Bob's daughters	Scrooge's former business partner who died 7 years ago, and appears in the story as a ghost.

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